Patriots for Peace
- Stop This Ugly War
by Jung Hee Choi
War Times, April 2003

Almost all my family-my
brothers, uncles, sisters and parents-were killed in the war with the
Soviets. I know what war is about. The Taliban were killing many people. I
thought freeing the country from the Taliban would help. So right after
Sept. 11 I signed up and joined the U.S. military invasion of my home
country, Afghanistan. But the U.S. has done nothing to improve our lives.

I am a taxi driver. Since
August I have polled over 200 of my riders about war in Iraq. Only one, a
young university student, said she was for the war. After I told her about
what war did to my family, she changed her mind.

On March 7 I will be sent
to Iraq as part of a special service, which I cannot name. But I am
totally against that war. Bush wants to murder people for oil and control.
It's unbelievable! They support Israel's killing of Palestinians for no
reason. Israel is the American cancer in the Middle East. America is being
taught to hate Muslims like me, and is getting ready to slaughter Arabs.